Background: Hospital medicine is the fastest growing subspecialty within internal medicine, growing from 10,000 hospitalists in 2002 to over 50,000 in 2016. Despite this growth, there remain relatively few hospitalists who are clinician investigators. We sought to quantify the number of clinician investigators, their dedicated time for research at major United States academic medical centers, [...]

Background: Staffing of inpatient medicine services with Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), including physician assistants and nurse practitioners, is becoming increasingly common at academic medical centers across the United States. The various roles filled by APPs have not been well-described in the literature. The purpose of this study is to better characterize how APPs are utilized [...]

Background: Regionalization of a provider team’s patients within dedicated nursing units has been shown to allow for improved efficiency and interdisciplinary collaboration. However, the creation of full regionalization is not feasible or appropriate for many medical centers given resource limitations. We hypothesized that we could achieve a significant increase in patient regionalization by modifying admitting [...]

Background: Hospital medicine is the fastest growing subspecialty within internal medicine, growing from 10,000 hospitalists in 2002 to over 50,000 in 2016. Despite this growth, there remain relatively few hospitalists who are clinician investigators. We sought to quantify the number of clinician investigators, their dedicated time for research at major United States academic medical centers, [...]